Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day. How should you be focusing your efforts? What will your idea look like in real life? How do you start? How many meetings and discussions does it take before you can be sure you've got the right solution? Now there's a surefire way to answer these important questions: the sprint.

3 out of 5 stars

Not ideal for the audio book format

By
PT
on
09-01-18

Mapping Innovation

A Playbook for Navigating a Disruptive Age

By:
Greg Satell,
Bernard S. Meyerson - foreword

Narrated by:
Steven Roy Grimsley

Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
5

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
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Story

4 out of 5 stars
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Map the innovation space - and blaze a path to profits and growth. Countless books, articles, and other advice promise leaders solutions to the complex challenges they face. Some offer quick, silver-bullet remedies - a straight line to success! - and some are so technical that audiences get lost before they begin. Now, there's
Mapping Innovation, a refreshing alternative in the crowded business innovation space.

Originals

How Non-Conformists Change the World

By:
Adam Grant,
Sheryl Sandberg - foreword

Narrated by:
Fred Sanders

Length: 10 hrs and 1 min

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
393

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
345

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
340

The
New York Times best-selling author examines how people can drive creative, moral and organisational progress - and how leaders can encourage originality in their organisations. How can we originate new ideas, policies and practices without risking it all? Adam Grant shows how to improve the world by championing novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battling conformity and bucking outdated traditions.

If you listen to nothing else on inspiring and executing innovation, listen to these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the
Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you innovate effectively.

5 out of 5 stars

Brilliant insights & food for thought

By
Mimof
on
16-03-19

Bad Blood

By:
John Carreyrou

Narrated by:
Will Damron

Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
1,913

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,711

Story

5 out of 5 stars
1,713

The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar start-up, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose start-up ‘unicorn’ promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood tests significantly faster and easier.

5 out of 5 stars

Brilliant

By
Amazon Customer
on
24-08-18

Monetizing Innovation

How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price

By:
Georg Tacke,
Madhavan Ramanujam

Narrated by:
Darren Stephens

Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
12

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
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Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
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A direct challenge to the status quo "spray and pray" style of innovation,
Monetizing Innovation presents a practical approach that can be adopted by any organization, in any industry. Most monetizing innovation failure point home. Now more than ever, companies must rethink the practices that have lost countless billions of dollars.
Monetizing Innovation presents a new way forward, and a clear promise: Go from hope to certainty.

Sprint

How to solve big problems and test new ideas in just five days

By:
Jake Knapp,
John Zeratsky,
Braden Kowitz

Narrated by:
Dan Bittner

Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
205

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
176

Story

4 out of 5 stars
173

Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day. How should you be focusing your efforts? What will your idea look like in real life? How do you start? How many meetings and discussions does it take before you can be sure you've got the right solution? Now there's a surefire way to answer these important questions: the sprint.

3 out of 5 stars

Not ideal for the audio book format

By
PT
on
09-01-18

Mapping Innovation

A Playbook for Navigating a Disruptive Age

By:
Greg Satell,
Bernard S. Meyerson - foreword

Narrated by:
Steven Roy Grimsley

Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
5

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
4

Story

4 out of 5 stars
4

Map the innovation space - and blaze a path to profits and growth. Countless books, articles, and other advice promise leaders solutions to the complex challenges they face. Some offer quick, silver-bullet remedies - a straight line to success! - and some are so technical that audiences get lost before they begin. Now, there's
Mapping Innovation, a refreshing alternative in the crowded business innovation space.

Originals

How Non-Conformists Change the World

By:
Adam Grant,
Sheryl Sandberg - foreword

Narrated by:
Fred Sanders

Length: 10 hrs and 1 min

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
393

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
345

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
340

The
New York Times best-selling author examines how people can drive creative, moral and organisational progress - and how leaders can encourage originality in their organisations. How can we originate new ideas, policies and practices without risking it all? Adam Grant shows how to improve the world by championing novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battling conformity and bucking outdated traditions.

If you listen to nothing else on inspiring and executing innovation, listen to these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the
Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you innovate effectively.

5 out of 5 stars

Brilliant insights & food for thought

By
Mimof
on
16-03-19

Bad Blood

By:
John Carreyrou

Narrated by:
Will Damron

Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
1,913

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,711

Story

5 out of 5 stars
1,713

The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar start-up, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose start-up ‘unicorn’ promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood tests significantly faster and easier.

5 out of 5 stars

Brilliant

By
Amazon Customer
on
24-08-18

Monetizing Innovation

How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price

By:
Georg Tacke,
Madhavan Ramanujam

Narrated by:
Darren Stephens

Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
12

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
11

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
11

A direct challenge to the status quo "spray and pray" style of innovation,
Monetizing Innovation presents a practical approach that can be adopted by any organization, in any industry. Most monetizing innovation failure point home. Now more than ever, companies must rethink the practices that have lost countless billions of dollars.
Monetizing Innovation presents a new way forward, and a clear promise: Go from hope to certainty.

Change by Design, Revised and Updated

How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation

By:
Tim Brown

Narrated by:
Tim Roberts,
Tim Brown

Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
8

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
5

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
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The subject of “design thinking” is the rage at business schools, throughout corporations, and increasingly in the popular press - due in large part to work of IDEO, a leading design firm, and its celebrated CEO, Tim Brown, who uses this audiobook to reveal how the techniques and strategies of design belong at every level of business. Change by Design is an audiobook for creative leaders seeking to infuse design thinking into every level of an organization, product, or service to drive new alternatives for business and society.

Move Fast and Break Things

How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Have Cornered Culture and What It Means for All of Us

By:
Jonathan Taplin

Narrated by:
Jonathan Taplin

Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
44

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
37

Story

4 out of 5 stars
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Google. Amazon. Facebook. The modern world is defined by vast digital monopolies turning ever-larger profits. Those of us who consume the content that feeds them are farmed for the purposes of being sold ever more products and advertising. Those that create the content - the artists, writers and musicians - are finding they can no longer survive in this unforgiving economic landscape. But it didn't have to be this way.

4 out of 5 stars

Worth a listen and a think!

By
Greig Stirling
on
19-09-17

Reinventing Your Business Model

By:
Mark W. Johnson,
Clayton M. Christensen,
Henning Kagermann

Narrated by:
Todd Mundt

Length: 31 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
17

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
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Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
13

One of the secrets to maintaining a thriving business is being able to recognize when it needs a fundamental change.

4 out of 5 stars

Strategic effectiveness

By
David Parsonage
on
01-04-17

Designing for Growth

A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers

By:
Jeanne Liedtka,
Tim Ogilvie

Narrated by:
Nicol Zanzarella

Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
19

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Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie educate listeners on one of the hottest trends in business development: "design thinking", or the ability to turn abstract ideas into practical applications for maximal business growth. Jeanne Liedtka's recent book,
The Catalyst: How YOU Can Lead Extraordinary Growth, was named a Top Innovation and Design Thinking Book by
Business Week. Tim Ogilvie has been hailed as a visionary for his pioneering contributions to service innovation, business model innovation, and customer experience design.

4 out of 5 stars

Excellent for product managers

By
max richy
on
03-04-19

Venture Deals, Third Edition

Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

By:
Brad Feld,
Jason Mendelson

Narrated by:
Jason Mendelson,
Brad Feld

Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
41

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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Venture Deals provides entrepreneurs and start-up owners with a definitive reference for understanding venture capital funding. More than an overview of the process, this book delves into the details of the term sheet, the players, the negotiations, the legalities, and more, including what not to do. This new third edition has been updated to reflect the new realities of today's intricate start-up environment.

5 out of 5 stars

A must read for entrepreneurs

By
Thomas Sichel
on
20-04-19

The Innovator's Dilemma

Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive Change

By:
Clayton Christensen

Narrated by:
Deaver Brown

Length: 1 hr and 6 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3 out of 5 stars
64

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2.5 out of 5 stars
50

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3.5 out of 5 stars
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This audiobook was created based on Clayton Christensen's landmark book
The Innovator's Dilemma. This was Mr. Christensen's synopsis of his book for the
Harvard Business Review. The audio tracks listed here cover the key elements of Mr. Christensen's book. This audiobook emphasizes the Idea in Brief "Does my organization have the right resources, processes, values, and team to innovate?" Then it covers the right structure for your specific type of innovation.

1 out of 5 stars

Don't waste your time

By
Niall.nf
on
25-11-17

Summary

Innovation may be the hottest discipline around today - in business circles and beyond. And for good reason. Innovation transforms companies and markets. It’s the key to solving vexing social problems. And it makes or breaks professional careers. For all the enthusiasm the topic inspires, however, the practice of innovation remains stubbornly impenetrable. No longer. In The Little Black Book of Innovation, long-time innovation expert Scott D. Anthony draws on stories from his research and field work with companies like Procter & Gamble to demystify innovation. In his trademark conversational and lively style, Anthony presents a simple definition of innovation, breaks down the essential differences between types of innovation, and illuminates innovation’s vital role in organizational success and personal growth.

This unique hybrid of professional memoir and business guidebook also provides a powerful 28-day program for mastering innovation’s key steps:

Finding insight

Generating ideas

Building businesses

Strengthening innovation prowess in your workforce and organization

With its wealth of illustrative case studies and vignettes from a range of companies around the globe, this engaging and potent playbook is a must-hear for anyone seeking to turn themselves or their companies into true innovation powerhouses.

Innovation

First book I audio read following from my Innovation module. It does cover most of the topics in Innovation.Not too detailed but worth reading it. I have made note of some good points. Good for people who are ready to apply Innovation in their lives.

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G StJoe

28-04-12

Great Innovation Overview Summary

If you could sum up The Little Black Book of Innovation in three words, what would they be?

The book was well organized, practical and actionable. It gave valuable suggestions for additional reading as well as techniques to put in to motion everyday.

What about Sean Pratt’s performance did you like?

Engaging, but not over done, performance by Sean Pratt.

5 of 5 people found this review helpful

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Emmanuel

06-04-12

Highly Executable!

Full of clear, implementable steps. I found the book to be extermely practical, different from the theoretical approach of most books on innovation. And I believe this was the exact intention of the author.

4 of 4 people found this review helpful

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Reviewer786

20-01-14

Great information and useful procedures

A great book for any entrepreneur or product designer looking to define and apply innovation towards a goal. I like how the innovation process is broken up into phases like a project.

3 of 3 people found this review helpful

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4 out of 5 stars

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Stephen S

20-04-16

fresh ideas

I enjoyed this book and it provides fresh ideas on how to innovate. A good book to revisit.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

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4 out of 5 stars

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Steve Jones

12-04-16

Instructive AND practical

I found this book both instructive and practical. It's one of those that tempts me to buy a hard copy so as to lift quotes. In fact, I'll need to listen through a second time because it is so thick with practical application. I plan to introduce it to my staff (church staff).

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

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Tibor Mackor

07-03-12

Innovation

This is a great book on innovation with a step by step guide to create a framework to innovate. Excellent!

3 of 4 people found this review helpful

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Patrick Miller

06-06-17

great easy to follow recipe innovation reference

the book combines several great processes for innovation. it's laid out with examples of their application as well.

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Mai Thai

25-05-17

Just a simple introduction to innovation

The second half of the title and the first chapter overpromise the contents of the book. Many repetitions between chapters. Maybe the word "little black book" of the title should be interpreted as "you will get very little clear advice as everything is still in the black box".

Tres tres bon

Top Little Black Book

Many excellent principles to significantly improve anyone's innovative skills in any aspect of your life!

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